And the theme in this week’s pictures shall be, “Oh look over there! Something colourful!” *snap*

When I took a photo course earlier this summer, I mentioned that I spent most of the time with my 50 mm f1.4 lens on my camera. I adore that lens! The instructor said a simple way to push your creative limits is to change up your perspective by using a different lens for a while, so this week I carried around my beast of a 35-70mm f2.8 lens on my camera instead. The 50mm weights 229 grams (about 8 oz) and the 35-70 mm weighs literally three times that at 660-odd grams. In fact, the lens weighs almost as much as the camera! All that to say, um, I’m not sure what I was trying to say after I googled all the camera and lens specs. Maybe that my left side is now stronger because that’s where I carry my camera? Or that my door frames now have larger divots from when I bump into them with the camera (you’d cringe if you saw how often I did that.) Um, no, it was that I did in fact find it useful to change up my perspective a little bit, despite the sore left arm.

But first, an iPhone picture – this one has no special filters or post-processing. The clouds really did look just like this over a farm out in the rural south as I looped my way out to Stittsville the back way on the weekend.

I came across this guy playing with his nuts on a stump and loved how he was perfectly silhouetted against the sun on the river behind him – and that he was nice enough to freeze in terror just long enough for me to snap a shot!

Now that summer is creeping into fall, the morning fog is often thick between Manotick and the airport, where I found this cow noshing on some wildflowers.

I was driving to work past the Rideau Canoe Club one morning and the colourful kayaks caught my eye from Hogs Back Road, so I pulled in and started poking around with my camera. Oooo, colourful! (Beloved and I want to get a canoe one of these days. Any advice for finding a good one that’s big enough for a family of five but would still be maneuverable by one early riser with a camera?)

I walked by this downtown, got about fifteen feet down the sidewalk and went back for the picture. I mean, I know I ate a lot in Mexico last week, but don’t you think this is a little personal?

I bought this adorable little bottle and wire basket set for less than $10 at my new favourite antiques and reproductions store, Gendron’s Antiques in Stittsville. OMG, how have I driven past this a hundred times on Carp Rd and never noticed the giant red barn? I also bought a barn star for my porch and made a wish list about as long as my arm. The yellow flowers are from my garden, about the only thing that survived the drought.

This is by far my favourite photo of the week. We went to the scaled-down SuperEx at the Rideau Carleton Raceway last weekend, and mid-morning on a Saturday you can see how busy it wasn’t.

It cost us $16 for the boys to win a $5 Pokemon stuffie, but getting this photo was worth every penny… and seeing the big boys happily let Lucas keep the stuffie, and Lucas sleeping with the darn thing every night this week, makes it just about perfect.

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you wrote- “I came across this guy playing with his nuts on a stump and loved how he was perfectly silhouetted against the sun on the river behind him ? and that he was nice enough to freeze in terror just long enough for me to snap a shot!”

i read that w/o looking at the photo and you can imagine what i was thinking! a guy playing with his nuts..hmmmmmmm.

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Hi, I’m Danielle Donders, but my friends call me Dani, and the Internet calls me DaniGirl. I'm a Canadian photographer, blogger, government social media strategist and mom to three boys. Everything else you need to know - and a whole lot more! - is in the blog.

My least favourite of the Anne books so far. I could feel the boys' attention wandering as odd and quirky characters wandered in and out of the narrative. Any book with Anne Shirley in it is a wonderful story by default, though.